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HOLY GRAIL, BATMAN!

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:59:32 +0000

While White Wizzard take their show on the road all over the world and make bad-ass videos in support of their upcoming trad-metal rocker Over The Top, former members of that band are getting ready to do the same in their new project, Holy Grail. Holy Grail released the four-song Improper Burial EP this past [...]

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’S TREVOR STRNAD TAKES A PAGE FROM THE SEBASTIAN BACH PLAYBOOK

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:26:02 +0000

Why would Trevor Strnad punch this kid in the face? That’s the only thing I can keep asking myself after viewing the below video, which The PRP posted last night: I mean, it doesn’t seem like the kid did anything that warrants a punch, other than touch Strnad. But Strnad’s the lead singer of a metal [...]

GET YOUR FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE NEW DECAPITATED LINEUP PLAYING LIVE

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:02:55 +0000

Decapitated have been roaming the UK for the past week for their first tour with their newly minted lineup. Though the new members of Decapitated had some pretty big shoes to fill — not that stepping in for dead or injured band members is ever easy — I think that most Decapitated fans are pretty [...]

AND NOW AN UPDATE FROM DAATH

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:30:16 +0000

If you loved Daath’s The Concealers as much as we did – and both Vince and myself included the album fairly highly on our 2009 year-end lists – than you’ll be as excited as we are to learn that there’s a buttload of activity going on in the Daath camp right now. For one thing, [...]

BRAD FICKEISEN ON WHY HE LEFT THE RED CHORD

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:15:24 +0000

Last night it was announced that drummer Brad Fickeisen is out of The Red Chord, but we had no idea why he was out of The Red Chord. Well, Brad just e-mailed us the following statement explaining the split: “There is no easy way to go about leaving a busy band with plans in constant motion, [...]

ORPHANED LAND’S KOBI FARHI: THE ULTIMATE JEW ON JEW INTERVIEW

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:00:09 +0000

Oh, sure, we’ve done Jew on Jew with a half-Jew and a dude who has spent a lot of time in Israel and is a self-proclaimed “bad Jew,” but Orphaned Land vocalist Kobi Farhi? The dude is FROM Israel! He calls himself a “proud Jew!” With all due respect to Eyal and Mookie, on the [...]

ANDREW W.K. CONFESSES

Gary Suarez — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:30:24 +0000

Close Calls With Brick Walls / Mother Of Mankind comes out March 8th in the UK, and March 9th in the USA/rest of world. -GS [Gary Suarez usually manages the consistently off-topic No Yoko No. He recently quit Twitter.] RELATED POSTS:IN WHICH WE LOST A GREAT WRITER, A GREAT HISTORIAN, AND A GREAT MIDGET ACTRESSVINCE’S TELL ALL [...]

DEVIN TOWNSEND REMIXES RAMMSTEIN’S “RAMMLIED”: EXCLUSIVE PREMIER

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:00:35 +0000

How does he do it? Between writing and recording four albums, touring, producing, taking over our site for an entire day and being a proud Canadian family man, Devin Townsend somehow still found time to do a remix of Rammstein’s track “Rammlied” from their oftentimes pornographic 2009 release Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da. Rammstein are always [...]

I BET BRIAN POSEHN MAKES SOME GREAT FART AND WIENER JOKES

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:30:31 +0000

Brian Posehn is easily one of the funniest stand-up comedians alive. I have never missed a chance to go see him live, and he has – quite literally – made me fall out of my chair from laughing so hard. Add to that the fact that the dude loves metal, and, well, he’s just so [...]

CANCER BATS ARE “SCARED TO DEATH”

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:00:28 +0000

If I were in Cancer Bats the only thing I’d really be scared to death about is my band’s inability to fit clearly into any one scene. But that’s a good thing. I wouldn’t be too scared of rocking because my band would do that really fucking well, and my band’s new track “Scared to [...]

PREDICTION: KERRY KING TO COCKPUNCH DAVE MUSTAINE

Anso DF — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:30:20 +0000

No one can fault Dave Mustaine for putting together a tour in lieu of the stillborn American Carnage trek. But as always the Megadeth frontman aims for maximum annoyance and as such his new tour is a brazen approximation of Carnage minus Slayer. As a member of Slayer, Kerry King must be distressed to find [...]

BETTER THAN ACTUAL NICKELBACK

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:50:59 +0000

MS Maniac Brian sent us a link to the below video with the message “Better than actual Nickelback?” I’ve appropriated that message for my headline, but I removed the question-mark, because, let’s face it, there is no question: this is, in literally every way, superior to actual Nickelback. Sure, it outstays its welcome a little, [...]

SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO START OFF YOUR TUESDAY: INDUKTI

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:10:35 +0000

MS reader Mike Morreale sent us an email yesterday about the Polish band Indukti, and as it turns out Z. Kirill sent us one back in October too but we snoozed on it. Second time’s a charm, I guess, because I’m really digging the proggy metal ambiance of Indukti’s sound. If you enjoyed yesterday’s recommendation [...]

BRAD FICKEISEN ALSO AVAILABLE FOR WHITE LION REUNION!!!

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:30:44 +0000

For reasons I do not currently know, drummer Brad Fickeisen is out of The Red Chord. That’s a bummer, ’cause the dude is a good drummer, and played on Clients, Prey for Eyes, and Fed Through the Teeth Machine. The good news is that Mike Justian, the band’s original drummer who played on Fused Together in [...]

JAMES LOMENZO AVAILABLE FOR WHITE LION REUNION!!!

Axl Rosenberg — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:53:22 +0000

Here’s a nice little “HOLY SHITBALLS!” moment to cap off your Monday: after a seven year absence, Dave Ellefson has returned to Megadeth. And to think, not that long ago, these two were suing one another. Hilarious. Old-school Megadeth fans will remember that Ellefson survived through various incarnations of ‘Deth, and for many years appeared to [...]

OCEANO TAKE THEIR BAND DRAMA TO NEW, UMM, DEPTHS ON MYSPACE

Gary Suarez — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:00:41 +0000

…..AS some of you may or may not have heard, Guitarist, Andrew has parted ways with Oceano. This decision was reached through personal as well as minor quarrels amongst the band. We wont go too much further into detail as it seemingly is not a band issue any longer. If we’re to use MySpace blog [...]

WHAT’S WORSE THAN A SHITSTAIN ON THE ASS OF THE UNIVERSE?

Axl Rosenberg — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:30:24 +0000

How about this band, who have concocted a song so fucking irritating it could defeat killer tomatoes? By the way, if you want to torture a small animal, just play it the vocals at 1:24. -AR POPULAR POSTS:BTBAM THE GREAT MISDIRECT CONTEST: WIN A WHOLE LOTTA COOL BTBAM STUFFPOLL: WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE METAL ALBUM OF 2009?FUNNY PHOTO [...]

TRASH TALK CRAM ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY ONTO ONE SLAB OF VINYL

Gary Suarez — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:01:41 +0000

Despite their inclusion at MetalSucks’ 2008 CMJ showcase, Trash Talk haven’t received much in the way of coverage here. Consider this the first step towards remedying that unintentional failing. I mean, it’s not every day that one of the most insane modern hardcore bands neatly and conveniently re-releases its entire discography on vinyl–one [...]

HIGH ON FIRE’S “SNAKES FOR THE DIVINE” IS, IN FACT, DIVINE

Axl Rosenberg — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:30:34 +0000

I’d normally never use a word like “divine” or “glorious” without a hint of irony, since people who do use those words without a hint a irony turn out to be annoying ten out of ten times, and life is just too short. So let’s just take a page from the Bob Cock playbook and call [...]

KICK SOME CLOUDS FOR FREE WITH CLOUDKICKER’S NEW [FREE] ALBUM

Vince Neilstein — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:03:03 +0000

I love it when budding musicians and bands give away their recorded music for free. Rather than trying to charge $10 (or however much) to collect money from the few diehard fans you have that are willing to spring some dough for your product, you make a potential fan out of anyone who’s willing to [...]